Manhattan, N.Y. City Friday, April 16th -
The female Western Tanager continues, photographed again this late morning, seen at & near the feeder array in Carl Schurz Park, just inside the park from East End Ave. & south of the stairway to the East 86th St. entrance, also in shrubs & along the iron fence where berry treats awaited it (and other local birds). The Orange-crowned Warbler also continues, but harder to see (or to find) at times, up in the n. edges & next to Gracie mansion’s fence, in the same park. ... At Central Park, the early Yellow-throated Vireo seen Thursday by many & photo’d & video’d, was still present at the north end of that park this Friday 4/16 having moved a bit to a site east of the Blockhouse, with multiple observers - and as already noted, quite an early arrival in mid-April. Blue-headed Vireos also were present again. Both species of vireo were singing - & the Yellow-throated was singing as early as pre-sunrise - as were a number of other migrants. Also seen just in the n. end of Central Park were Louisiana Waterthrush, Black-and-white Warbler, Pine Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler, also a House Wren first noted in Central Park on Thurs. was again present this Fri., 4/16. The overwintered Lincoln’s Sparrow at the compost area of Central Park’s north end was still there, with multiple observers again on Friday. Some fly-overs seen from Central Park on Friday include Bald Eagles, Osprey, Tree, Barn, & N. Rough-winged Swallows, Common Ravens (2), as well as the expected Great & (fewer) Snowy Egrets, plus various other species. At least 72 species of birds were found in & over Central Park alone Friday, with more than that in N.Y. County. A number of migrants moved out, onward even thru Thurs. night to Friday, yet clearly a fair number also lingered. The E. Meadowlark that lingered so long just might have actually departed by Friday, & also no longer being found was a Vesper Sparrow, as well as any number of other recent individual birds having possibly moved on - such as that recent very early Wilson’s Warbler in Central Park, as found by Paul Sweet/A.M.N.H. … While a few somewhat early Yellow Warblers that showed in Central this week seem to also have moved on, there’ve been a couple of reports of slightly early Veery in Central Park (thru at least 4/15, & some (or all) of these may be correctly ID’d, even as Hermit Thrush is the *much* more-likely Catharus thrush for this part of April; some Veery were being seen in counties northerly to N.Y. City, including a confirmed sighting in Sullivan County, NY on 4/16. ….. and over on Governors Island (in N.Y. County) Friday reports (from A. Barry) included 3 Laughing Gulls, 12 Y.-s. Flickers, & 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, all good indicators that more migrants are working their way north. Good & peaceful birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
